Knowing exactly where your surveys are at, in terms of both completion and responses, is enormously beneficial to your project team.
Nfield enables this via two powerful features:
- Fieldwork Reporting – interactive, shareable reports for live project tracking.
- Data Repository – a continuous data feed into your own reporting and automation environment.
Both of these features are now available in Nfield Online and Nfield CAPI (previously only Nfield Online).
Fieldwork reporting: live visibility for you and your clients
Fieldwork reporting gives project teams immediate insight into what is happening in the field, without having to wait for data processing, file export, or building of custom dashboards.
Reports are generated automatically inside the Nfield Manager using built-in Power BI integration. Live results are visible with an approximate refresh time of 10 minutes after interviews are collected.
What you can monitor
Fieldwork reporting focuses on operational progress and data quality:
This makes it easy to identify routing issues, overly long sections or problematic questions while the study is still running.
Shareable live reports
A key benefit from Nfield’s fieldwork reporting feature is the way it supports transparent collaboration.
- Easy sharing: Generate a shareable link to the report.
- Convenient viewing: Invited third parties can view without logging in.
- Control: You can set an expiration date and revoke access at any time.
This allows you to safely share live progress with clients, internal teams or partners, without giving them access to the Nfield Manager itself.
Controlling what appears in reports
Through the Design/Transformations settings, you can choose which questions fields are included in reports. This enables you to keep reports appropriately focused by excluding irrelevant variables, so stakeholders can interpret them more easily. Because fields are simply excluded from reports rather than being removed, they can be re-instated at any time with minimal effort.
Data repository: your data, continuously delivered
The data repository provides a continuous pipeline that delivers interview data into a dedicated database for your own reporting, dashboards, and automation. Instead of relying on manual exports or batch processes, completed interviews are extracted approximately every 10 minutes and made available in a structured, queryable format. This allows research teams and data specialists to connect BI tools, build custom dashboards, and automate workflows directly on top of Nfield data, significantly reducing technical overhead and speeding up access to real-time insights.
To activate fieldwork reporting and the data repository
Both fieldwork reporting and the data repository are available in Nfield Online. To activate these capabilities for Nfield CAPI, please contact [email protected]. If you would like to see the functionality in action, we recommend watching Academy 24 – Nfield Reporting and Academy 35 – Standard and Custom Reporting. Once enabled, you can immediately start using real-time fieldwork reporting and continuous data delivery for both Online and CAPI projects.
